Go the way your blood beats :
Go the way your blood beats : an anthology of lesbian and gay fiction by African-American writers /
foreword by E. Lynn Harris ; edited and with an introduction by Shawn Stewart Ruff.
- 1st ed.
- New York : H. Holt, 1996.
- xxix, 544 p. ; 24 cm.
The women / The outing / Meredith's lie / What has been done to me / To taste fire once more / Near the end of the world / The alternative / The truth of the matter / Run, mourner, run / There's a window / Smoke, lilies and jade / The place of excrement / Bathesda of Sinners Run / Man of all work / The temple of my familiar / Just friends / Obi's story / Asphalt / Infants of the spring / Dissimulations / The two / Zami : a new spelling of my name / Afro Jew fro / Song of Solomon / Babylon / A carnival jangle / Just as I am / Undressing Lady J. / Summertime, and the living is easy-- / Epithalamion / Gayl Jones -- James Baldwin -- Shawn Stewart Ruff -- Jacqueline Woodson -- Charles W. Harvey -- Ice castle / Becky Birtha -- Bruce Morrow -- Amiri Baraka -- Bennett Capers -- Randall Kenan -- Sapphire -- Richard Bruce Nugent -- The Statue of Liberty / John Edgar Wideman -- Samuel R. Delany -- Maude Irwin Owens -- Richard Wright -- Alice Walker -- Brooke M. Stephens -- Cary Alan Johnson -- Carl Hancock Rux -- Wallace Thurman -- Orian Hyde Weeks -- Gloria Naylor -- Audre Lorde -- Catherine E. McKinley -- Toni Morrison -- Max Gordon -- Alice Dunbar Nelson -- E. Lynn Harris -- Artress Bethany White -- Reginald Shepherd -- Carolivia Herron.
An anthology of gay and lesbian fiction by black writers. In Bennett Capers' The Truth of the Matter, a reporter realizes his true sexuality as he investigates a murder, while an excerpt from E. Lynn Harris' Invisible Life tackles the male bonding--spoken and unspoken--that goes on in fraternities.
0805047360 (alk. paper) 080504437X (pbk. : alk. paper)
96004905
Gays' writings, American.
American fiction--African American authors.
Lesbians--Fiction.
Gay men--Fiction.
African American gays--Fiction.
American fiction--20th century.
PS648.H57 / G6 1996
813.008/0920664
The women / The outing / Meredith's lie / What has been done to me / To taste fire once more / Near the end of the world / The alternative / The truth of the matter / Run, mourner, run / There's a window / Smoke, lilies and jade / The place of excrement / Bathesda of Sinners Run / Man of all work / The temple of my familiar / Just friends / Obi's story / Asphalt / Infants of the spring / Dissimulations / The two / Zami : a new spelling of my name / Afro Jew fro / Song of Solomon / Babylon / A carnival jangle / Just as I am / Undressing Lady J. / Summertime, and the living is easy-- / Epithalamion / Gayl Jones -- James Baldwin -- Shawn Stewart Ruff -- Jacqueline Woodson -- Charles W. Harvey -- Ice castle / Becky Birtha -- Bruce Morrow -- Amiri Baraka -- Bennett Capers -- Randall Kenan -- Sapphire -- Richard Bruce Nugent -- The Statue of Liberty / John Edgar Wideman -- Samuel R. Delany -- Maude Irwin Owens -- Richard Wright -- Alice Walker -- Brooke M. Stephens -- Cary Alan Johnson -- Carl Hancock Rux -- Wallace Thurman -- Orian Hyde Weeks -- Gloria Naylor -- Audre Lorde -- Catherine E. McKinley -- Toni Morrison -- Max Gordon -- Alice Dunbar Nelson -- E. Lynn Harris -- Artress Bethany White -- Reginald Shepherd -- Carolivia Herron.
An anthology of gay and lesbian fiction by black writers. In Bennett Capers' The Truth of the Matter, a reporter realizes his true sexuality as he investigates a murder, while an excerpt from E. Lynn Harris' Invisible Life tackles the male bonding--spoken and unspoken--that goes on in fraternities.
0805047360 (alk. paper) 080504437X (pbk. : alk. paper)
96004905
Gays' writings, American.
American fiction--African American authors.
Lesbians--Fiction.
Gay men--Fiction.
African American gays--Fiction.
American fiction--20th century.
PS648.H57 / G6 1996
813.008/0920664